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Translated to a cross-country context, the Solow model (Solow, 1956) predicts that international differences in steady state output per person are due to international differences in technology for a constant capital output ratio. However, most of the cross-country growth literature that refers...
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causes an economy- wide reduction in effort; A minimum wage does not cause unemployment. It forces effort in local services …
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causes an economy- wide reduction in effort; A minimum wage does not cause unemployment. It forces effort in local services …
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Employment protection (EPL) has a well known negative impact on labor flows as well as an ambiguous but often negative effect on employment. In contrast, its impact on capital accumulation and capital-labor ratio is less well understood. The available empirical evidence suggests a non-monotonic...
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share, and the unemployment rate, hence labour market institutions are an essential determinant of the distribution of …, second, that stronger unions and a more generous unemployment benefit tend to reduce income inequality. High capital …
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We study the implications of product and labor market imperfections for equilibrium unemployment under both exogenous … equilibrium unemployment. The relationship between the long-run unemployment and the intensity of product market competition is … long-run equilibrium unemployment is an increasing function of product market imperfections when the elasticity exceeds …
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OECD. We first model the wage determination process and show that unemployment, the labour share, and the wage differential … is ambiguous. Stronger unions and/or a more generous unemployment benefit tend to reduce inequality through reduced wage … differentials, a higher labour share, and also higher unemployment. We then use a panel of OECD countries for the period 1970-96 to …
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share, and the unemployment rate, hence labour market institutions are an essential determinant of the distribution of …, second, that stronger unions and a more generous unemployment benefit tend to reduce income inequality. High capital …
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We study the implications of product and labor market imperfections for equilibrium unemployment under both exogenous … equilibrium unemployment. The relationship between the long-run unemployment and the intensity of product market competition is … long-run equilibrium unemployment is an increasing function of product market imperfections when the elasticity exceeds …
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